The Western backers want Kiev to “restore the fighting
capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement,”
Soros wrote.

Retired US general Wesley Clark, who commanded the NATO bombing
of Yugoslavia, and Polish ex-general, Waldemar Skrzypczak, will
be among those advising Poroshenko on how to fulfil this task, he
added.

In mid-February, after a year of fighting, Kiev and rebels from
the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk
signed a peace deal calling for a ceasefire, heavy weapons
withdrawal, and prisoner exchanges between the sides.

Among other things, the leaked documents claim that the Ukrainian
authorities were also asked to “restore some semblance of
currency stability and functioning banking system” and
“maintain unity among the various branches of
government” in order to receive assistance from foreign
allies.

Soros believes that it’s up to the EU to support Kiev with
financial aid, stressing that “Europe must reach a new framework
agreement that will allow the European Commission to allocate up
to $1 billion annually to Ukraine.”

As for the current state of economy, the billionaire wrote that
former Chilean finance minister, Andres Velasco, after visiting
Ukraine on his request, returned with “a dire view of
financial situation."

“The new Ukraine is literally on the verge of collapse”
due to the national bank’s lack of hard currency reserves, Soros
warned Poroshenko.

The correspondence shows that the billionaire has been in
constant touch with the authorities in Kiev and consulting them.

Soros has been involved in Ukraine since 1989, when he founded
the Ukrainian International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) that
provided more than $100 million to Ukrainian NGOs two years
before the fall of the Soviet Union.

The billionaire is connected to several non-governmental
organizations in Ukraine that advocate closer ties to the EU and
aided the EuroMaidan movement that toppled Viktor Yanukovich’s
government last February.

In March, he criticized the EU for paying too much attention to
Greece’s economic problems and promised to invest $1 billion of
his own money in Ukraine.